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Cindy and I own three old worn-out vans that look like they have just enough energy left to get to the junkyard. There’s a perfectly logical reason for this situation as I’m sure most people in this day and age will understand and sympathize with.

WCHS had its graduation last week. There were many moving words spoken, full of hope and promise for the future.

However, the most meaningful message to me personally came not from these beautiful words.

It came from a special- needs student that graduated at the age of 20, who did no more than slowly walk across the stage to receive his diploma. My son, Will, who was an usher for the graduation, had the great honor to assist him onto the stage. I was thankful Will received that chance to do so.

In an area where the line between right and wrong isn’t always a straight one, author James Higdon returns some respect to rural Marion County, Ky., a region publicly tarnished as a lawless haven for drug dealers and criminals throughout much of the 1980s and ’90s.

“A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops.”

Henry Adams

About 90 years ago, General Douglas MacArthur, later one of only five men in the history of the United States to be promoted to the rank of five-star general, was appointed Superintendent of The United States Military Academy at West Point.